CBS Helicopter Hovers Over Lakewood and Environs

We out raking leaves and putting them in those stupid bags in our oak-hickory forest (minus one 80-foot hickory) in Lakewood when we noticed a helicopter seeming doing a pattern over Country Club Additions.

I joked with my son the electronic game kid maybe it was one of those black helicopters.

It went away for a while, then came back. By then I had gotten my camera.

Enough of the leaves have fallen that I was able to get this shot through the mainly leafless tree limbs.

It stayed above a spot that seemed to be between Meridian Street and Melrose Lane long enough for me to get the photo you see.

House the 16-year old teenage girl hit while texting on her cell phone.

I tried to think of what might get Crystal Lake on Chicago television and all I could come up with was the 16-year old girl who ran into a house in Wedgewood next to our neighborhood.

She was texting while driving around a corner.

The Crystal Lake Police Department’s press release is below:

On Sunday, October 24th at approximately 1:01 PM, Crystal Lake Police and Fire Rescue Departments responded to the 800 block of Wedgewood Drive in Crystal Lake to a report of a traffic crash involving an automobile that struck a private residence.

Upon arrival of emergency responders, it was determined that neither the driver of the vehicle nor the single occupant of the residence had sustained any injuries. A representative of the City of Crystal Lake Building Department also responded to the incident to evaluate the structural integrity of the affected residence.

In the investigation that followed, it was determined that a 16 year-old female juvenile from Crystal Lake, had been operating a 1998 Lexus ES300 westbound on Country Club Drive.

The vehicle then left the roadway at a curve in the road and traveled across a lawn before striking the residence, causing extensive damage to both the vehicle and the structure.

It was also determined that the juvenile was improperly using a cellular phone to send and receive text messages just prior to the crash.

The juvenile driver of the Lexus was subsequently issued traffic citations for

  • failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision and
  • improper use of an electronic communication device.

The juvenile was released to a parent pending prosecution.


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